Conor P. McGowan, Ph.D.
Assistant Leader and Assistant Research Professor
USGS, Alabama Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences,
Auburn University
Auburn, AL 36849-5418
cmcgowan@usgs.gov
cmcgowan@auburn.edu
Ph: 334 844 9231
Research interests
My work focuses on conservation and management decision support science. I work primarily on endangered species and birds, especially shorebirds, using the tools of population and ecological modeling to predict the effects of management actions on populations of interest.
Current Projects
- Multispecies adaptive management in Delaware Bay
- Incidental take and endangered species recovery
- Species Status Assessments for listing decisions in the American Southwest
- White tailed deer and coyote management in south Alabama
- Grassland bird habitat management in the East Gulf Coastal Plain
- American Black Duck integrated population and habitat management
Graduate Students
Current
Jennifer Price, PhD – State wide white-tailed deer monitoring and population modeling
Kevin Ryer, MS – Small mammal and herptile occupancy in eraly successional habitats
Anna Tucker, PhD – Migration ecology and stopover habitat management of shorebirds
Orin Robinson, Post-doc – Black Duck survival modeling and population modeling
Completed
Alyssa Butler, MS – worked on Horseshoe Crab Tag loss and survival estimation
Ally Keever, MS – working on deer and coyote management in southern Alabama
Emily Merritt, MS – Horseshoe Crab mark-recapture based abundance estimation
Patrick Farrell, MS – Grassland bird habitat associations in the East Gulf Coastal Plain
Recent Publications
McGowan, C.P., 2015, Comparing Models of Red Knot population dynamics. Condor 117, 494-502
McGowan, C.P., M. C. Runge, M. A. Larson, 2011. Incorporating parametric uncertainty into population viability models. Biological Conservation 144, 1400-1408. [R-Code webpage]
Links
USGS Cooperative Research Units
Alabama Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit